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The quest for meaning in educational research.
Abstract
This article explores different senses of the concept of meaning in educational research, presenting 'meaning' as personal (the researcher's quest for meaning through research), contextual (meaning in relation to linguistics and culture) and shared (through communication), offering illustrative examples from the literature and from her own work.
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Why Do We Perform Educational Research?
When I was finishing my undergraduate degree in anthropology thirty years ago, the professor of our cultural anthropology course gave us a provocative assignment for our final paper. We were supposed to ask, and attempt to answer, one ...
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